---
name: "Patti Podesta"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/patti-podesta"
fi1m_id: "patti-podesta"
imdb_id: "nm0004162"
tmdb_id: 560
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 77
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T16:35:59.902222+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Patti Podesta

## Identity

Patti Podesta

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/patti-podesta
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** patti-podesta
- **IMDb ID:** nm0004162
- **TMDB ID:** 560
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004162/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/560

Production designer. Born in Los Angeles, California, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1996–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (1), 2000s 88 (1), 2020s 64 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 77 to 72 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Thriller 3, Crime 1, Drama 1, Horror 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $180m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004162/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/560

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Memento*](https://film.one/film/memento.md) (88)
- **Netflix:** [*Black Phone 2*](https://film.one/film/black-phone-2.md) (64)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Patti Podesta is an American production designer for film and television. She began her career designing title sequences, including for *Bound* (1996), and contributing to *Jurassic Park* (1993), before moving into production design in the mid-1990s.

Her work on *Memento* (2000) helped establish her reputation. Subsequent credits include *Love & Other Drugs* (2010), *Bobby* (2006), *The Black Phone* (2021) and its sequel *Black Phone 2* (2025), as well as television series such as *Hannibal*, *American Gods* and *Defending Jacob*. She has received multiple nominations for Primetime Emmy and Art Directors Guild awards.

Podesta holds an MFA from Claremont Graduate School and previously worked as a media artist, with video works exhibited in the United States and Europe. She has taught at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and designed a Stanley Kubrick exhibition at LACMA.

*Sources: imdb.com, tvguide.com, fortla.org, channel.sciarc.edu.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Black Phone 2* (2025), Fi1m 64, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/black-phone-2.md)
- *Memento* (2000), Fi1m 88, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/memento.md)
- *Bound* (1996), Fi1m 80, Title Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/bound.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Black Phone 2* (2025), Production Design — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/black-phone-2.md)
- *Freaky Tales* (2025), Production Design
- *Dark Harvest* (2023), Production Design
- *The Black Phone* (2022), Production Design
- *Cinema Verite* (2011), Production Design
- *Love & Other Drugs* (2010), Production Design
- *Tell-Tale* (2009), Production Design
- *Recount* (2008), Production Design
- *Smart People* (2008), Production Design
- *Bobby* (2006), Production Design
- *Annapolis* (2006), Production Design
- *The Chumscrubber* (2005), Production Design
- *Spin* (2003), Production Design
- *Scorched* (2003), Production Design
- *Memento* (2000), Production Design — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/memento.md)
- *This is how the world ends...* (2000), series, Production Design
- *Splendor* (1999), Production Design
- *Angel's Dance* (1999), Production Design
- *Driven* (1998), Production Design, Costume Design
- *Nowhere* (1997), Production Design
- *Bound* (1996), Title Designer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/bound.md)
- *The Cisco Kid* (1994), Main Title Designer
- *Made in Hollywood* (1990), Production Design

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